Zt.Zzt en el Antropoceno: Carne de artrópodo, piel de franja solar y la era del Antropoceno en "The Old Drift"

Autores/as

  • Amit Baishya University of Oklahoma

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.37536/ECOZONA.2022.13.2.4709

Palabras clave:

era del Antropoceno, artrópodos, drones, planetario, Antrobsceno

Resumen

Mientras que la novela The Old Drift de Namwali Serpell puede leerse como un relato ficticio de la historia colonial y postcolonial de Zambia, este artículo se centra en cómo la obra explora la era del Antropoceno—las escalas temporales geobioquímicas y planetarias que preceden las historias humanas, a la vez que hacen un gesto hacia los futuroes en los que el Homo sapiens puede estar ausente. Este artículo se centra en la profunda temporalidad en la novela por medio del uso del mosquito y del Moskeetoze (microdrones que parecen mosquitos) como narradores. Mientras que los mosquitos facilotan los encouentros con el pasado profundo y de historias entrelezadas de humanos y no-humanos, los Moskeetozes permiten representar las vicisitudes del “Antrobsceno” (Parrikka) y las posibilidades creativas de la vida improvisada que surge en los paisajes peligrosos del sur global. Además, The Old Drift hace un gesto hacia un futuro planetario especulativo en el que los mosquitos y los Moskeetoze se integran para desarrollar nuevas formas de inteligencia de enjambre y nuevas formas de vida.

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Biografía del autor/a

Amit Baishya, University of Oklahoma

Amit R. Baishya is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Oklahoma. His first monograph Contemporary Literature from Northeast India: Deathworlds, Terror and Survival was published by Routledge in 2018. He is also the co-editor of three collections: Northeast India: A Place of Relations (co-editor Yasmin Saikia, Cambridge University Press, 2017), Postcolonial Animalities (co-editor Suvadip Sinha, Routledge,  2019), and a special issue of the journal Postcolonial Studies titled "Planetary Solidarities: Postcolonial Theory, the Anthropocene and the Nonhuman" (co-editor Priya Kumar, 2021).  Baishya translates short stories and novels from Assamese to English. His translation of Debendranath Acharya’s Assamese novel, Jangam (The Movement, Vitasta), on the “forgotten long march” of Indians from Burma during WWII was released in 2018.

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Publicado

2022-10-29

Número

Vol. 13 Núm. 2 (2022): El no-humano poscolonial

Sección

Lo no-humano poscolonial

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